A Little Dust on the Eyes
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781845233020; 9781845232405
Subjects: Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004; Fiction; FICTION; Literary
Description: It is the late 1980s in southern Sri Lanka and Bradley Sirisena's father is abducted and tortured during the violent struggle for power between the state and local insurgents. Savi, a Sri Lankan research student long settled in the UK, has lost her way in both her thesis and her life, when she receives a wedding invitation from the uncle she would rather ignore. Meanwhile in a coastal fort in Sri Lanka, her cousin Renu continues to try to uncover the secret of Bradley's father's disappearance as she works with the wives and widows of the disappeared. Reunited on Savi's return to Sri Lanka, the.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; I: Brighthelm; II: Dolmen House; III: The Leper King; IV: The Bluffing Tree; V: Tel; Acknowledgements; About the Author.